New comment by tom-renphil in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)"

Renaissance Philanthropy | Research Engineer (Speech AI/ML) | Remote (worldwide)

Renaissance Philanthropy's aim is to activate a virtuous circle of increasing ambition and impact between philanthropists and innovators: by identifying frontier experts both in science and in new ways of solving problems; by tapping into the growing number of emerging philanthropists; and by building multi-sector initiatives that can harness the power of philanthropy, markets, and governments.

RenPhil's Engineering Hub supports mission-driven, grant-funded educational technology projects that seek to improve educational outcomes in fundamental skills like math and reading. This summer we're launching a program called LEVI Literacy, which has a goal of halving the number of struggling readers in the US within 5 years.

We're looking for an expert in modern voice AI to support this work. Our partner teams are building tools that assess and support early reading directly from children's speech in real classrooms — oral reading, spoken vocabulary tasks, whole-class instruction. These are hard, meaningful speech problems: young children's voices, noisy multi-speaker environments, and high stakes for getting it right — and fair — for every student.

We're looking for folks who:

- have built and operated production ASR or speech-processing systems

- know the full data-to-model pipeline: collection, annotation, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment

- can speak the languages of both research and engineering

- want to help create a world where all children learn to read well.

If this sounds like you, please apply!

https://www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/careers